“For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool — you bet that Tommy sees!”

…from Kipling’s “Tommy.”

I’m thinkin’ that it’s best for my health to ignore these folk… else my head will explode.

I think it would be a toss up on what would smell worse as well. The manure spreader or a group of aging has been code pink hippies.

Jim C

http://www.zombietime.com/berkeley_marine_corps_2-1-2008/

Since the practice of drumming out disgraced members has, unfortunately, fallen from fashion, we now discharge people either administraitively, or at the end of their enlistment.

One might come to the conclusion that an individual who claims to have been “drummed out” just might have received something other than an honorable discharge. In fact, it might have been something a LOT less than an honorable discharge. I don’t suppose that the Councilman would be interested in making his record public, but I’ll bet it would be highly informative.